Should religious symbols be allowed in public schools or government buildings? Some argue that religious neutrality should be maintained by no permanent display of religious symbols in government ...

A Canadian court upheld this week part of a Quebec law that bans government employees from wearing religious symbols at work. With the only exception being existing employees, the law’s original ...

Nov. 28 (UPI) --The European Union's Court of Justice ruled on Tuesday that public administrations may ban overt religious symbols, like headscarves, in order to create a neutral environment as long ...

In the latest move as part of a controversial decade-long effort to curb the public expression of religion, the French Senate voted 160-143 Tuesday in favor of a bill seeking to amend its national ...

The Quebec government has tabled new legislation that would further tighten secularism rules in public institutions, extending restrictions on religious symbols, prayer spaces and religiously based ...

Religious symbols in public spaces have become one of the most heated debates in Western democracies. Quebec’s Bill 21 and France’s laïcité policy both aim ... Read more This article appeared first on ...

MILAN, March 21 (Reuters) - Italy's education ministry on Friday instructed schools to ban the growing use of gender-neutral symbols, saying they were unclear and flouted the rules of Italian grammar.